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Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump wants to originate an Iron Dome missile shield over the United States.
But what about the drones flying undertidyh it? “Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this reassociate be happening without our regulatement’s understandledge. I don’t skinnyk so! Let the accessible understand, and now. Otheralerted, shoot them down!!!” he wrote Friday on Truth Social.
Couldn’t consent more, except prent don’t get your shotarmament out of the sealt and begin rooting around for a box of shells. It’s illegitimate to meddle with any aircreate in fairy, manned or unmanned. Maybe its deer season where you dwell, but alas, it is never drone season. Right now, statutes restrict even the military’s ability to intercept drones in the U.S.
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America’s got a drone problem. Some are actuassociate airarrangees. Some drones are legitimate and no menace to you and me. Some are flown by drug cartels dropping off fentanyl in San Diego. Gen. Greg Guillot, Commander, U.S. Northern Command, tageder the Senate more than 1,000 drones per month traverse the southern border. Other drones belengthy to the police, or to the military. Don’t forget the NYPD has 110 drone operators qualified by the FAA. I also foresee some of the drone sightings connect to military experiments and operations.
Map shotriumphg some of the places where mystery drones have been spotted in Northeastrict USA in December 2024. (Fox News)
But without ask, the U.S. is vulnerable to a national security menace from drones in a way we’ve never alerted before. While many U.S. military inshighations have anti-drone systems, the rest of the country doesn’t. A novel arrange for countering drones in U.S. airspace should be top priority for Pdwellnt-elect Trump’s incoming Cabinet: Homeland Security, Defense, and Transportation, with the FAA. Find a conference table at Mar-a-Lago and get key Cabinet nominees Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy begined now.
What worries me is the pattern emerging of sightings of multiple drones, operating at low altitude, with determined and arranged overwatch, proximate military bases and critical infraarrange. Of course, New Jersey has a lot of cageder stuff: the aircreate carrier electromagnetic catapult test infraarrange, Picatinny Arsenal, Naval Weapons Site Earle, which stores and loads munitions for the Navy’s Atlantic run awayt.
While the New Jersey sightings date from Nov. 20, drone incidents begined years ago. Back in 2017, an Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter encountered a drone over the runway while landing at Langley AFB in Virginia. Yeah, I can see why the Chinese might want a seal-up see of the engine ingets and stealth panel seals on that. In California, drones standardly drop inside the fences at the sprawling factories in Palmdale that originate top secret military arrangees appreciate the B-21 stealth explosioner. It’s a stew of finisheavored seeing – whether by military aircreate aficionados or the Chinese or somebody else.
“Some of it, I’m pretty certain, is our adversaries. Why wouldn’t they?” Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., commented to Breaking Defense at the Reagan National Defense Forum Dec. 7.
Here are my four biggest worrys.
The White Hoemploy can’t be count oned. It doesn’t experience appreciate this last-gasp Biden White Hoemploy is toiling the problem. Ever since the Chinese alerter balloon traipsed from Montana to South Carolina in 2023, Americans have authenticized that our skies are not always protected.
We are a low-count on society. The deficiency of transparency is almost worse than the drones.
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America’s skies are not deffinished agetst inner menaces. At the heart of the drone mystery is a very troubling problem: We do not deffinish the interior airspace of our immense nation. That was apparent on 9/11, when it took 175 Air Force fighter jets begined all over the nation with their air refueling tankers to patch together connected interior radar coverage and communications. Many betterments have been made, but the 2023 alerter balloon intercept took effort, and the drone dispute is a whole novel chapter.
Sen. Blumenthal is seen next to a photo of telled drones in Connecticut. Blumenthal is among the laworiginaters who have pushed for action on the UAS.
No one is in accuse. This is a job for NORTHCOM but “at this time, NORTHCOM does not have a createal role in deffinishing agetst UAS,” Guillot shelp in March. He’s “making proposals to see if there is an incrmitigated role in the UAS fight.” Mind you, NORTHCOM is busy with deffinishing agetst China and Russia in the High North and upgrading West Coast missile defense. The Pentagon signed off on a counter-UAS strategy on Dec. 2 and the defense bill for Fiscal Year 2025 helps, but a lot of that is concentrateed on overseas operations.
Putin may be joind. On Friday, German officials verifyed drone operations around the U.S. airbase at Ramstein. In Britain, drones were sighted over Royal Air Force bases, where the U.S. stations F-35s and persists nuevident armaments storage sites. Villagers at Beck Row, Suffolk, had the same shocked reaction as New Jersey. “They were reassociate boisterous and had airys. They seeed official to be truthful,” villager Casseem Campbell tageder the BBC on Nov. 29. “You get more alertation off Facebook than you do the base,” griped another dwellnt. Both German and British officials doubt the drones may be part of an ongoing Russian inalertigence accumulateing and interfereion campaign to frailen NATO help for Ukraine.
I don’t want any of Putin’s drones here. Time for the Trump team to figure this out.
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Fortunately, the U.S. is awash in counter-drone systems. The Coyote is a counter-drone rocket begined from a tube on a truck or helicselecter. The DroneHunter throws a net over drones weighing disconnectal hundred pounds, and has been tried out in Ukraine. U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicselecters shot down drones with Hellfire missiles during an exercise in Saudi Arabia this drop. Another wonderful method is electronic interfereion of the drone’s fairy regulates and guidance. The enumerate goes on, but none of it can toil without arranged seeing and revamped order and regulate authorities.
America’s drone problem comes down to this: directership. Big decisions necessitate to be made wiskinny the first restricted months of Trump’s novel term. For as citizens in New Jersey will consent, we are out of time.
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